70 million Arabs on social
media networks
A recent regional study has esti-
mated that the number of social
media users in the Arab World
has reached 70.3 million in the
first half of this year.
6.5 million Arabs on
Twitter
Around 6.5 million Arabs have ac-
counts on Twitter. This is 9.3% of
the total number of social media
users.
11% of Arab Twitter users
are from the UAE
By end of last March, the total
number of Arabs on Twitter was
3,766,160. 47% of Arab users are
from Saudi Arabia, 12% are from
Kuwait and 12% are from Egypt.
11% of the total Arabs on Twitter
are from the UAE.
74% of phones in the UAE
are smart
73.8 is the percentage of smart
phones among all mobile phones
in the UAE.
5.8 million Arab users on
LinkedIn
LinkedIn has the smallest share
among social media users in the
region. Only 8.3% of the total so-
cial media users or 5.8 million Ar-
abs use LinkeIn.
300 million monthly active
users on WhatsApp
The total number of WhatsApp us-
ers across all operating systems
has exceeded 300 million monthly
active users.
31 billion messages are ex-
changed every 24 hours
WhatsApp, the instant messaging
application revealed that 31 billion
messages are exchanged every 24
hours.
58 Million Arabs on
Facebook
According to a study published
by Go-Gulf, Facebook is the most
popular social media site among
Arabs with 58 million users.
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